Word: talese
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Where Prince lets a tale carry itself, the show succeeds but when he lets the company get carried away, the story gets sacrificed for momentary laughs. Katharine Kean is screamingly funny in the title role in "Henny Penny" but as she clucks her way around the stage for 20 minutes...
Everything you read, everything you listened to, everything you did, or didn't do, had meaning. People wrote about the horror of the war, young men walking off air transports into the steamy jungles of Southeast Asia to be swallowed by something invisible that they called Charlie. People talked about...
DIRECTOR JON PRINCE has curiously chosen to update the stories themselves, while maintaining the '60s quality of the original production. What made this show work in 1970 was Sills' combination of unadulterated language and a natural environment. The environment is still natural--at times this production oozes Woodstock--but Prince...
BITS AND PIECES of Story Theatre, resting on a sound technical basis, work well and bring the tales to life. In other parts however, Prince's troupe buffs the stories with several coats of shlock and the actors can do little to salvage the intended meanings and morals. Confusion reigns...
It would be a mistake to exaggerate the significance of the joyful outburst; in a tough winter for American morale, the Olympic hockey was a lovely diversion. Still, the moment was connected in some deeper ways to the emergence of a new patriotic impulse in America. It seems to many...